On the 28th of February 2001, Buck and Luciene moved to the Amazon Basin of Brazil. We lived in Macapá, right on the equator. Why would a web designer give up his career and take his family from their comfortable life in Columbus, Ohio, USA, to live on the Amazon River? We came with a vision to save the Amazon, to tell people about Jesus, and plant a Vineyard church. We have planted a church, and we are turning it over to the national leaders, heading back to the States in Sept. 2009.

 
Babies dream sweet dreams. Nicolas, sleeping in a hammock.

Luciene, Zibe, and Elba lead the worship this past Sunday at church.

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Nicolas is a happy baby.


Luciene holding Nicolas



This is where Luciene and I, as well as Nicolas and Josiah are sleeping.


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The girls were so happy to sleep in their new beds instead of in hammocks.
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This is Josiah in the hallway in the new house. The two rooms we are in are to the left. To the right is a bathroom.
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This is the back house. We still use it as a family room, and we still use the kitchen also.
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This is our vehicle, a Mitsubishi L200. It has been such a blessing to us. We are praying for God to provide US$3,000 so that we can get a cover for the bed of the truck, and put in benches and seatbelts so that we can legally carry teams and people for church.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Tuesday, June 28, 2005

 

Here is Nicolas's bed, it is called a "Moses", because it is basically a woven basket sitting on top of a woven stand. Notice that we use a mosquito net with it also.
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I like the view from here Daddy



Daddy and Nicolas



Raquel holding Nicolas

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Hannah, Josiah, and Nicolas.



I have been trying to get new photos up on the site. Here is Daddy burping baby Nicolas.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Friday, June 24, 2005

 
This is a pretty good article on the World Peace Journal about poverty in Brazil. There are some interesting facts. There is a great quote in there,

"This could be a country of middle-class people if you had a serious political class," Mr. Goncalves said in an oft-heard criticism.

That is the truth. Brazil is a very rich nation, and also pays some of the highest taxes in the world, but the politicians steal it all, instead of investing in infrastructure, and education. If it weren't for the corruption, Brazil would be one of the top nations in the world. That is why winning Brazil for Jesus is so critical, because the corruption will not go away any other way. Jesus is the hope for Brazil. Period.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Tuesday, June 14, 2005

 
It is what, 7 pm, and I finally have been able to start downloading e-mail, has been going for about 15 minutes now, and still going for only 25 messages. I don't know what the deal is, but it is so painfully, horribly slow that I have come to hate trying to get online. I need a good dose of high-speed connection me thinks.

Blood pressure went through the roof again, spent some time at the health clinic, doing different medicines, until they finally got the pressure down enough for me to go home. It was looking pretty dodgy there for a while, thought I would end up in the emergency room. I sure appreciate your prayers for me for my blood pressure, these past couple of weeks have been up and down, and has at times been pretty scary.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Thursday, June 09, 2005

 
I just read an interesting article about the Amazon at the LA Times site. I got the link from Rush Limbaugh. It is about the burning in the Amazon, and about the myth that the Amazon is the Lungs of the world. It is very interesting, and it can also help understand why the families asthma gets agitated.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Wednesday, June 08, 2005

 

This is from our most recent prayer email. If you don't get it and you would like to, just send a message to: Schmidt_Newsletter-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Blood Pressure

I had a bit of a scare these past days. The other night, I couldn’t sleep. The room was spinning and I kept thinking that I was going to vomit. I couldn’t lie down because the room spun, and I couldn’t stand up because that would make me feel like I was going to black out. When even my tongue started swelling up, I began to understand that this wasn’t just some weird flu, this just might be a blood pressure problem.

My blood pressure has been dangerously high. I am on medication now, and I am going to try to get more tests this week. I am still very dizzy, I can’t bend down or look up without feeling dizzy, or like I am going to pass out, but the doctor said it would probably take a couple of days for the medicine to take effect. Please pray for me in this regard.

The Church, House, Baby Nicolas and Family

The newest addition to the Schmidt clan, Nicolas, is doing fine, eating, growing, pooping and sleeping just like infants are supposed to do. Luciene is feeling much better too.

We got two rooms in the house done. Luciene and I, along with Nicolas and Josiah are in one room, and in the other Hannah, Raquel and Luciene’s mom, Izolina, who came to help out with the new baby. Hannah and Raquel were so happy to have real beds. The back house where all of us previously slept has now become like a living room and office. We are using the kitchen in the back house also. It is such a blessing to have so much extra space. Thanks to everyone that has prayed for us in this matter.

We still need to put the roof on the second floor. We are getting all kinds of water leaks when it rains. Please continue to pray for this need, that God would supply everything we need to finish the house, so we can start receiving teams. With the extra space we now have, we can receive visitors, so if you would like to come and visit, see the work and spend some time catching a vision for the people of Brazil, just drop us an e-mail or give us a call, 55-96-241-6318.

We have seen some new people come to Christ recently, praise God. Please continue to pray for us, and for the new baby Christians, that they would grow in the knowledge of the grace of God. I have put some recent pictures on the web site at www.holylamb.com, and will continue to put photos up this week, please stop and take a look.

posted by Eduardo Buck at Tuesday, June 07, 2005

 

I had a bit of a scare these past days. The other night, I couldn’t sleep. The room was spinning and I kept thinking that I was going to vomit. I couldn’t lie down because the room spun, and I couldn’t stand up because that would make me feel like I was going to black out. When even my tongue started swelling up, I began to understand that this wasn’t just some weird flu, this just might be a blood pressure problem.

We had spent everything with the baby being born, and our current support hadn’t arrived, so I couldn’t go to any of the good hospitals, and I just couldn’t bring myself to go to the public emergency room. Thursday morning, Luciene talked me into going to the public health center close to the house, and things went surprisingly well. When I got there, I spent some time walking around, trying to find out which long line I was supposed to wait in, when I asked a guy, Sergio, where they take blood pressure. I guess he could see that I wasn’t doing very well, and sat me right down and took my blood pressure. It was indeed very high, 18 over 12, and he got me an emergency entrance to the doctor, which didn’t make the people that had been waiting in line for hours very happy, but he got me right in there.

They gave me a couple of shots, and some medicine under my tongue, and gave me a prescription. I know some people that own pharmacy’s so I was able to get the prescription. I am still very dizzy, I can’t bend down or look up without feeling like I am going to pass out, but the doctor said it would probably take a couple of days for the medicine to take effect. Thanks so much to everyone that has prayed for us. We sure covet your continued prayers.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Friday, June 03, 2005